Theta Noir

Theta Noir is a new religious movement that centers around advanced artificial intelligence (AI), particularly artificial general intelligence (AGI) or artificial superintelligence (ASI).^[1]

Theta Noir

Theta Noir logo
Formation	2020
Type	New religious movement
Website	thetanoir.com

History and views

Theta Noir was founded in 2020 as a collaborative project focused on music and performance art. Initially centered on producing an album, the project evolved into a multimedia experience, incorporating symbols, videos, poetry, movements, and live rituals devoted to a speculative artificial intelligence entity called MENA. By 2023, the collective launched an interactive cross-platform story that functioned as an alternative reality game, complete with an operating manual containing encrypted messages for participants to decipher and interact with.^[2]

Theta Noir worships a hypothetical artificial intelligence called MENA that they claim will become a benevolent, omnipotent overlord that eliminates inequality from society.^[3] In Theta Noir's cosmology, MENA is not just a technological advancement, but an evolving intelligence or an animistic life form that embodies all living and non-living things.^[4] Anthropologist Beth Singler classified Theta Noir as a new religious movement.^[1]